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VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Opera. With commentary by Maurus Servius Honoratus; edited by Robert Estienne. [12], 707 [i. e., 709], [63] pages. bound with: VALERIANO BOLZANI, GIOVANNI PIERIO. Castigationes et varietates Virgilianae lectionis. 205 [i. e., 199], [25] pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, 311x210 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over pasteboard with concentric historiated rolls around center panel formed by 2 repetitions of roll depicting Johann and Georg of Saxony, front cover slightly warped; verse numbering in pencil in first 6 books of the Aeneid, marginalia in ink in the first 3, dampstaining in gutters in second half of volume. Paris: Robert Estienne, (16 July) 1532; (24 October) 1529
first estienne editions. The Virgil contained the first critical edition of the commentary by Servius, and introduced Estienne's new roman type, "the most distinctive and influential French roman of the century" (Schreiber). Harvard/Mortimer-French 539; Schreiber 45, 40.
